correctly or satisfactorily 正确地;满意地 ensuring the work is carried out properly. 确保工作完满执行。 a properly drafted agreement. 文字起草符合规格的协议。 ■appropriately for the circumstances; suitably; respectably 适宜地;合适地;正派地 I'm trying to get my mother to behave properly. 我想要母亲注意点分寸。 ■[sentence adverb]in the strict sense; exactly 严格意义上;恰好 algebra is, properly speaking, the analysis of equations. 代数,确切地说,就是方程解析。
[usu. as submodifier](informal, chiefly Brit.)thoroughly; completely (非正式,主英)彻底地;完全地 on the first day she felt properly well, Millie sat out on the front steps. 密丽在感觉自己彻底好了的第一天就到屋外门前的台阶上坐了坐。